The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thayer Alexander Wheelock |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781318069187 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368490745 |
Reprint of the original.
Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9784066059271 |
Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 1230 |
Release | : 2023-11-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, covering Beethoven's life to 1816. Thayer became aware of many discrepancies in the already existing biographies of Beethoven, so in 1849 he sailed for Europe to undertake his own researches, learning German and collecting information. Still after many updates Thayer's biography of Beethoven is regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.
Author | : Jonah Winter |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307554007 |
How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.
Author | : Alexander Wheelock Krehbiel, Henry Edward Deiters, Hermann Riemann, Hugo Thayer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-06-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9925084695 |
Nachdruck des Originals.
Author | : Thayer Alexander Wheelock |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781318069200 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 1474 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146558322X |
If for no other reasons than because of the long time and monumental patience expended upon its preparation, the vicissitudes through which it has passed and the varied and arduous labors bestowed upon it by the author and his editors, the history of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set forth as an introduction to this work. His work it is, and his monument, though others have labored long and painstakingly upon it. There has been no considerable time since the middle of the last century when it has not occupied the minds of the author and those who have been associated with him in its creation. Between the conception of its plan and its execution there lies a period of more than two generations. Four men have labored zealously and affectionately upon its pages, and the fruits of more than four score men, stimulated to investigation by the first revelations made by the author, have been conserved in the ultimate form of the biography. It was seventeen years after Mr. Thayer entered upon what proved to be his life-task before he gave the first volume to the world—and then in a foreign tongue; it was thirteen more before the third volume came from the press. This volume, moreover, left the work unfinished, and thirty-two years more had to elapse before it was completed. When this was done the patient and self-sacrificing investigator was dead; he did not live to finish it himself nor to see it finished by his faithful collaborator of many years, Dr. Deiters; neither did he live to look upon a single printed page in the language in which he had written that portion of the work published in his lifetime. It was left for another hand to prepare the English edition of an American writer’s history of Germany’s greatest tone-poet, and to write its concluding chapters, as he believes, in the spirit of the original author. Under these circumstances there can be no vainglory in asserting that the appearance of this edition of Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set down as a significant occurrence in musical history. In it is told for the first time in the language of the great biographer the true story of the man Beethoven—his history stripped of the silly sentimental romance with which early writers and their later imitators and copyists invested it so thickly that the real humanity, the humanliness, of the composer has never been presented to the world. In this biography there appears the veritable Beethoven set down in his true environment of men and things—the man as he actually was, the man as he himself, like Cromwell, asked to be shown for the information of posterity. It is doubtful if any other great man’s history has been so encrusted with fiction as Beethoven’s. Except Thayer’s, no biography of him has been written which presents him in his true light. The majority of the books which have been written of late years repeat many of the errors and falsehoods made current in the first books which were written about him. A great many of these errors and falsehoods are in the account of the composer’s last sickness and death, and were either inventions or exaggerations designed by their utterers to add pathos to a narrative which in unadorned truth is a hundredfold more pathetic than any tale of fiction could possibly be. Other errors have concealed the truth in the story of Beethoven’s guardianship of his nephew, his relations with his brothers, the origin and nature of his fatal illness, his dealings with his publishers and patrons, the generous attempt of the Philharmonic Society of London to extend help to him when upon his deathbed.